Great book, and I personally enjoyed the narration. Economy is probably my favorite Chapter/Essay of all time but the entire book I found to be enjoyable.

Like I said, Economy is my favorite Chapter. Thoreau has a very subtle analysis of many contemporary situations that has led me to further investigate interactions in my own life. In his words I find echoes of other great philosophers applied to examine his life.

This was my first one, and I really enjoyed the sound of his voice.

Walden is a great book and this audiobook is a great introduction however it is very difficult to grasp everything Thoreau says in the first go round. If you haven't read Walden, give it a listen and then check out a copy from your library to go over the text a little more carefully to help grasp what Thoreau is saying at a pace that allows you to reflect on what he is trying to say.

To review the book would be almost futile as it is a well established classic. Within it lies much wisdom and the opportunity to live vicariously through the courageous and peace filled efforts of the writer.
The reader was great. Almost like it was he who wrote who read it to us.
I definitely recommend it.

Listen to this book. If you are tired, and looking for the type of voice to reach out and grab you, you've found it

Rambling Liberalist Academic running about with Narcissist Proverbs meets Tiny House mentality with a dash of Aspergers Syndrome for good measure.

"Walden" is a blog, and Emerson is the world's first blogger. No, really.<br/><br/>- Each chapter is essentially independent of other chapters.<br/>- Some passages are difficult to get through because it seems the author has nothing better to do that write all evening about bean hoeing.<br/>- The author writes as though his words are the world's most important work.<br/>- Interlaced between the opining and hoeing are -true- works of beauty.<br/><br/>I always pictured Thoreau as a mild-mannered man. Perhaps he was--who is to say--but his written words are anything but mild-mannered. Walden is a biting critique of society's impact on man. While Sand's narration is atypical (perhaps he was indeed voice acting in a manner fit for 19th century New England), I believe the passion that Sand brings to the text is one that Thoreau would approve.<br/><br/>I would go from being bored of details in one instant to immediately enthralled by a powerful soliloquy the next. Certainly one of the most moving passages I've ever come across in my life was in Chapter 3 of Walden where Thoreau speaks his thoughts on the act of reading:<br/><br/>"The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them. They have only been read as the multitude read the stars, at most astrologically, not astronomically. Most men have learned to read to serve a paltry convenience, as they have learned to cipher in order to keep accounts and not be cheated in trade; but of reading as a noble intellectual exercise they know little or nothing; yet this only is reading, in a high sense, not that which lulls us as a luxury and suffers the nobler faculties to sleep the while, but what we have to stand on tip-toe to read and devote our most alert and wakeful hours to.<br/><br/>I think that having learned our letters we should read the best that is in literature, and not be forever repeating our a-b-abs, and words of one syllable, in the fourth or fifth classes, sitting on the lowest and foremost form all our lives. Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading."<br/><br/>Stay astronomical, fellow reader.

The narrator read as if English was a foreign language to him, with no regard to proper inflection, pace and emphasis. The mispronunciation of words was grating, as were he awkward pauses after every few words... I'm off now to find a different version with better narration.

The narration is monotone and detracts from the story. I had to stop and purchase a different version.

I have recommended this book many times, but not this particular recording which is poor.

It's a beautiful American classic that cherishes simplicity and nature.

No. I picture the narrator as a young Irish man in his dorm room sitting with a Dell computer mic or possibly a lay reader in church. His accent is the only good quality because his style is mostly flat with echoes. This narrator does not seem to be an actor or trained in narrating.

Yes, I read this book regularly to stay simple and humble.

Maybe the author, NEVER the reader.

I found him to sound impatient, pretentious, and bored. He seemed to almost be sighing at the end of a lot of the sentences.

As humans destroy the very planet that gives us life this book becomes even more relevant